Re: [matplotlib-devel] muilti figure backend

2013-09-25 Thread Federico Ariza
No there is no pull request. I wanted to get some feedback before, as the development workflow suggested. Federico On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Is there a pull request open for this? If not, could you create one? > > Mike > > On 09/25/2013 03:04 PM, Federico Ariz

Re: [matplotlib-devel] muilti figure backend

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Droettboom
Is there a pull request open for this? If not, could you create one? Mike On 09/25/2013 03:04 PM, Federico Ariza wrote: > Hello > > To address the concern of display multiple figures at the same time. > I added detach and re-parent methods to the figure manager, so figures > can be programaticall

Re: [matplotlib-devel] muilti figure backend

2013-09-25 Thread Federico Ariza
Hello To address the concern of display multiple figures at the same time. I added detach and re-parent methods to the figure manager, so figures can be programatically redistributed between containers. Also I added a couple of tools that I use a lot, one for line properties and one for axes prop

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib user guide

2013-09-25 Thread Eric Firing
On 2013/09/24 10:19 PM, mark wrote: > hi matplotlib developers > > I have been considering the matplotlib user guide structure and it > has occured to me that there are two user guides interleaved here: >1. Introduction for new users >2. Library tour for developers > > I think that this str

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib user guide

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Droettboom
Thanks for the interest. I agree there's lots that can be done to improve it. You may want to familiarize yourself with MEP10 ( https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Mep10) though that mainly deals with docstrings and not the narrative documentation. Perhaps as a starting point, you

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib user guide

2013-09-25 Thread Phil Elson
For the record, I've spoken to Mark about this face-to-face in the past, and I think he has some great ideas about how the user guide should look. Personally I would agree that the user guide is currently not targeted enough (it takes 3 pages full of text before getting to a simple plt.plot() ) an

[matplotlib-devel] matplotlib user guide

2013-09-25 Thread mark
hi matplotlib developers I have been considering the matplotlib user guide structure and it has occured to me that there are two user guides interleaved here: 1. Introduction for new users 2. Library tour for developers I think that this structure makes it challenging for new users to benefit